James Harden traded to the Rockets, who are the real winners?

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The Oklahoma City Thunder traded James Harden, Cole Aldrich, Daequan Cook, and Lazar Hayward to the Houston Rockets for Kevin Martin, two first round picks and Jeremy Lamb. Now, in essence, the issue between Harden and OKC was that Harden (deservingly so) wanted a max contract. OKC could not give him a max contract of course because of the earlier contract  to Serge Ibaka. Houston of course will provide him with that max contract as soon as possible.
Let's look at the winners of this trade. The biggest winner was of course the Houston Rockets, who have tried so very hard to obtain a star caliber player for months (remember all those little Howard trade rumors before he got traded to the Lakers?) and now have two GREAT young pieces and presumably their backcourt of the future, in Jeremy Lin and James Harden. The Rockets are young, and their offense will no doubt revolve around Harden. Speaking of those Lakers, they are clearly the next winners of this trade.
The Lakers were favorite to come out of the west as soon as the Howard trade went through, and those who still believed in OKC (this humble writer included) as the favorites, did so out of respect of last year's run to the finals and on the brilliance of Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, AND james Harden. Yes they get draft picks and a promising young player in Jeremy Lamb, but isn't OKC trying to win a championship now? Kevin Martin is a good player, but come on, he is not James Harden. Can you honestly think of one big important game that Kevin Martin has played since he's been in the league? James Harden is fresh of a 6th man of the year award, and while he struggled against the Heat in the finals, did you see what he did to the Dallas Mavericks in the closeout game of the first round?
Harden was also a much better compliment to Oklahoma's other two stars, he was their best pick and roll player and playmaker in general. We know Westbrook is going to shoot the ball, and Martin is primarily a shooter. All in all just ask yourself one question, if you ask Kobe Bryant or Dwyane Wade, who would be an easier matchup for them to dominate, Martin or Harden, which name would they say?
In addition, Harden outside of Sefolosha was Oklahoma's best perimeter defender.
The thunder are still absolutely title contenders, but you cant help but smile deep down if you are a Lakers fan. As far as the Thunder, how are Durant and Westbrook going to react to the news that their good buddy got traded? Harden may initially be disappointed but not for long. He will now be the marquee player for a young team, the go to guy, and he will get his max contract. So ultimately the team who seemingly loses the most, is the team that pulled the trigger on the trade.